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I took this trip almost a year ago but I was sitting here drinking my coffee and looking at the pics and figured I would share the trip with you folks.
There is a lot of backstory to this trip but to save you the boredom and me the typing I will just do a quick summary on that. This trip was my third drive to Panama and back. The previous two times I did it in a 2004 Tacoma that was heavily built up. This time I did it in my 2000 UZJ100. This first trip down and back in 2009/10 was one hell of an adventure. I did it mostly solo and without any GPS. It was five months and 15,000 miles down and back and I hit every country between the USA and Panama. The second trip down I bee-lined it for Panama where I had a house rented for three months. That was in the winter of 2010/11. That was a great trip also but completely different from the first. Fast forward 5yrs to 2016 and I am burnt out on everyday life, one I had been living for 20yrs. I was also going to be losing the place I had lived the last 14yrs. So I decided screw it, time for a life change. I sold everything I owned, closed down my business I had ran for 18yrs and built up the 100-series.
Here is the build thread on the 100-series.
The Millennium Mall Crawler
A couple of years prior to 2016 I had taken a quick 3-week road trip down to the tip of Baja and back. On that trip I met this guy and his dad who were kayaking the length of Baja. They were a father & son pair from Guanajuato in mainland Mexico. The young guy was in his early 20's, we only hung out one day but we hit it off pretty good. We stayed in touch after that. As my plans began to develop I hit the the young guy up to join me, his name is Roy Morrill. He said hell ya and we made plans to meet up in Baja.
Since I now had a date set to meet Roy it was time to get moving. Once the truck build was done I headed to Oregon to see family and friends and then went down to California for more of the same. I also stopped in to Valley Hybrids and finished off some work to the truck. I headed for Baja after this and crossed into Mexico early one morning and then met Roy at the airport in Mexicali. Off we went!
Ya we had a lot of crap stacked on and stuffed into the Cruiser! Roy is an outdoor adventurists and I am the same so we had a lot of gear to do everything from rock climbing to white water kayaking to sea kayaking to spear fishing to surfing and more plus we planned to camp for as much of the trip as possible.
It was good to be back in Baja! I had not been down in three years and was craving a nice long stint across the peninsula.
I will continue the thread more as I have time. I will try and let the pictures do as much of the talking as I can.
Cheers
There is a lot of backstory to this trip but to save you the boredom and me the typing I will just do a quick summary on that. This trip was my third drive to Panama and back. The previous two times I did it in a 2004 Tacoma that was heavily built up. This time I did it in my 2000 UZJ100. This first trip down and back in 2009/10 was one hell of an adventure. I did it mostly solo and without any GPS. It was five months and 15,000 miles down and back and I hit every country between the USA and Panama. The second trip down I bee-lined it for Panama where I had a house rented for three months. That was in the winter of 2010/11. That was a great trip also but completely different from the first. Fast forward 5yrs to 2016 and I am burnt out on everyday life, one I had been living for 20yrs. I was also going to be losing the place I had lived the last 14yrs. So I decided screw it, time for a life change. I sold everything I owned, closed down my business I had ran for 18yrs and built up the 100-series.
Here is the build thread on the 100-series.
The Millennium Mall Crawler
A couple of years prior to 2016 I had taken a quick 3-week road trip down to the tip of Baja and back. On that trip I met this guy and his dad who were kayaking the length of Baja. They were a father & son pair from Guanajuato in mainland Mexico. The young guy was in his early 20's, we only hung out one day but we hit it off pretty good. We stayed in touch after that. As my plans began to develop I hit the the young guy up to join me, his name is Roy Morrill. He said hell ya and we made plans to meet up in Baja.
Since I now had a date set to meet Roy it was time to get moving. Once the truck build was done I headed to Oregon to see family and friends and then went down to California for more of the same. I also stopped in to Valley Hybrids and finished off some work to the truck. I headed for Baja after this and crossed into Mexico early one morning and then met Roy at the airport in Mexicali. Off we went!
Ya we had a lot of crap stacked on and stuffed into the Cruiser! Roy is an outdoor adventurists and I am the same so we had a lot of gear to do everything from rock climbing to white water kayaking to sea kayaking to spear fishing to surfing and more plus we planned to camp for as much of the trip as possible.
It was good to be back in Baja! I had not been down in three years and was craving a nice long stint across the peninsula.
I will continue the thread more as I have time. I will try and let the pictures do as much of the talking as I can.
Cheers
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